home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- WORLD, Page 31World NotesTHE PHILIPPINESIs Imelda a Shoe-In?
-
-
- What she lacks in credibility she easily makes up in
- chutzpah. Just minutes after pleading not guilty to six criminal
- charges, former First Lady Imelda Marcos stood on the courthouse
- steps to announce her bid to succeed Corazon Aquino as President
- of the Philippines.
-
- "There is a cry, there is a need for someone to help our
- people in misery," she said. After pledging to "save our country
- from suffering," she stepped into her Mercedes stretch
- limousine and headed back to her $2,000-a-day hotel suite.
-
- Though 41 criminal cases against Marcos are still pending,
- the ex-First Spouse's entry into the presidential race is being
- taken seriously in some quarters; the masses can expect a long
- season of free entertainment and handouts. But her quest to
- secure the nomination of the opposition Nacionalista Party
- could divide the anti-Aquino forces.
-
- While the press would love to see a reprise of the "war of
- the widows," Aquino has insisted on 92 different occasions that
- she will not seek re-election in May. She even sang her message
- on one occasion, warbling to the tune of I'll Never Smile Again
- an off-key rendition of I'll Never Run Again.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-